Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Wind-Krysvein]

Eyes still getting tired from the game. Bump.

[Erinellza]

This was my first time in Laby since DT's launch, ouch... I had to log out after this because I felt so dizzy. We need that TURN OFF button for glare/bloom BACK as soon as possible, SE! Also add a turn off button to graphics upscaling while you're at it.

[Fiel_Tana]

Bump, still getting eye strain, still no official word on this?

[Rueby]

I just did Syrcus tower and my eyes HURT...What's with the intense contrast....the stairs are almost pitch black and same awful spotlight effect on boss arenas...I'm getting flashbanged by blue crystals and the last boss' stack mechanics.

[Mewi]

Characters look so blurry to me after update, maybe other things do too but I can't stop but noticing how different my characters look ( too much blooming? ). This may be contributing to eyestrain. At any rate it completely ruined all my alt's appearances. This update was pointless and is so frustrating. Anyone who thinks it was "needed" for the character models themselves are people that seem to want FFXIV to look less cartoony and more realistic... for whatever reason. Bad design choices that have little to no actual impact on making the characters look graphically enhanced. No amount of fantasias can fix it to how it used to look -.- I have to start from scratch now.

[Icefall]

The intensity of the lighting since Dawntrail has been absolutely terrible for me, especially in The Arcadion fights. I straight up couldn't even see the name tags of the party at one point in a large blob of red and white lighting. I didn't feel too well physically after clearing them for the first time either. I'm dreading running them again for this week. I wish that SE would at least acknowledge the problem even if they don't have a hard fix yet and show sympathy for their customers.

[Erinellza]

How I must suffer for that weekly raid blade... RIP, my poor eyes.

[Toutatis]

How I must suffer for that weekly raid blade... RIP, my poor eyes.

I really hope that they fix this kind of thing. Atm I can’t play for more than 40-45 minutes in a row and no more than a few hours during a given day because the game gives me a headache and sometimes nausea and makes my eyes hurt and my vision blurry. I have been playing games for more than 3 decades and never experienced something like this. Sometimes, when there are wipes I have to leave groups not because I ran out of patience but because I just can’t look at my screen any longer. Savage is out of the question in those conditions.

[MiaBlaze-Cari]

Bump time? Bump time.


So far I've been evading the Dawntrail areas like crazy or only visit them at night in case I really need to go there. The level 100 dungeons as well as the Raids are impossible for me to do atm and I dont want to afk mid-fight and slow the group down because my eyes hurt or I have to throw up. So getting any of the tomes for gear is impossible as of now, essentially locking me out of the current content.